Analysis of urban storm-water quality for seven basins near Portland, Oregon
Timothy L. Miller, Stuart W. McKenzie
1978, Open-File Report 78-662
Over a 1.5-year period, water-quality data were collected for seven small drainage basins in urban aeas of Portland, Oreg. Analysis of the data followed three approaches. First, the constituent concentrations were analyzed. Average concentrations of suspended sediment, settleable solids, and fecal coliform bacteria generally exceeded levels expected for secondary waste-treatment...
Geology of the uranium prospect at Camp Smith, New York, with a new model for the formation of uranium deposits in metamorphosed submarine volcanogenic rocks
Richard I. Grauch
1978, Open-File Report 78-949
Uraninite of Precambrian age occurs locally in and around a massive sulfide deposit at Camp Smith, Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York. The host rocks are believed to be part of a sequence of marine sediments and submarine volcanogenic rocks that were metamorphosed to leucogneisses, amphibolites, and amphoholite gneisses in...
Catalog of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault system in Central California for the year 1976
C.A. McHugh, F.W. Lester
1978, Open-File Report 78-1051
No abstract available. ...
Research and development program for outer continental shelf oil and gas operations, report for fiscal year 1978
John B. Gregory
1978, Open-File Report 78-902
This report summarizes the contract research program in support of the Geological Survey's Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas operations. The program is technological, though certain environmental investigations are being conducted as a necessary adjunct. The program manager provides a focal point for communicating with the research community in both...
Summary of the water resources of Puerto Rico
H.J. McCoy
1978, Open-File Report 78-971
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is the lead agency in the Federal Interagency Study of the Economy of Puerto Rico. At the request of DOC the U.S. Geological Survey is providing a discussion of the water resources of the island for inclusion in the study's section on macroeconomic assessment.Two...
Minor and trace element contents of kimberlites of the Front Range, Colorado and Wyoming
M. E. McCallum, C.B. Smith
1978, Open-File Report 78-1011
Since 1960 about 90 separate occurrences of kimberlite have been discovered in the Front Range of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, and in the Laramie Range, Wyoming (e.g., McCallum, Eggler, and Burns, 1975; McCallum, Eggler, Coopersmith, Smith, and Mabarak, 1977; Smith and others, 1977 and in press). All but two...
Core drilling in 1978, Willow Springs Quadrangle, Emery and Sevier Counties, Utah
Gary M. Edson
1978, Open-File Report 78-1049
On the development of strong-motion instrument networks in the United States
R.B. Matthiesen
1978, Open-File Report 78-1024
This report outlines a plan for the distribution of strong-motion instrumentation throughout the United States. The present "national" network of strong-motion instrumentation has evolved through the merger of several programs initiated by different agencies and organizations with objectives ranging from research to regulation. It is the result of the coordination...
Preliminary report on the coal resources of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
G. C. Martin, James E. Callahan
1978, Open-File Report 78-1033
NPR-A, located on the Arctic slope of Northern Alaska, is underlain by a thick sequence of sedimentary rocks of Cretaceous age which attain a thickness of as much as 4600 m (15,000 feet). The bulk of the coal resources occurs in rocks of the Nanushuk Group of Early and Late...
FORTRAN program for Shapiro-Wilk W test for normality for Honeywell Multics System
R. K. Mark
1978, Open-File Report 78-1069
Preliminary hypocenters of earthquakes in the Healdsburg (1:100,000) quadrangle, Lake Berryessa to Clear Lake, California, October 1969 - December 1976
S.M. Marks, C. G. Bufe
1978, Open-File Report 78-953
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic maps showing Quaternary deposits of the lower Tuolumne and Stanislaus alluvial fans and along the lower San Joaquin River, Stanislaus County, California (Westley, Brush Lake, Ripon, and Salida 7 1/2' quadrangles)
Denis E. Marchand, J.W. Harden
1978, Open-File Report 78-656
No abstract available....
Effect of controlled land application of sludge on ground-water quality, Ocean County, New Jersey
William Kam
1978, Open-File Report 78-492
Percolation of contaminants from the controlled land application of domestic anaerobic digested liquid sludge has affected the quality of ground water in the highly permeable unconfined Miocene Cohansey Sand aquifer at Colliers Mills and Webbs Mill areas of the Pine Barrens region in Ocean County, New Jersey.The sludge, containing five...
An empirical equation with tables of smoothed solubilities of methane in water and aqueous sodium chloride solutions up to 25 weight percent, 360 degrees C, and 138 MPa
John L. Haas
1978, Open-File Report 78-1004
The total pressure for the system H2O-CH 4 is given by p(total) = P(H2O,t) + exp10[log x(CH 4) - a - b x(CH4)], where P(H2O,t) is the vapor pressure of H2O liquid at the temperature t (?C) and x(CH 4) is the molal concentration of methane in the solution. The...
REM (relative element magnitude): program explanation and computer program listing
George Van Trump, Henry V. Alminas
1978, Open-File Report 78-1014
The REM (relative element magnitude) program is designed as an aid in the characterization of geochemical anomalies. The program ranks the magnitudes of anomalies of individual elements within a multielement geochemical anomaly....
Statistical analysis of re-bid federal offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases
John Lohrenz, Frankie W. Conner
1978, Open-File Report 78-981
Through 1977, there were 178 cases where exactly the same Federal offshore oil and gas bonus bid lease was offered and received bids in 2 sales. (In addition, there were 131 cases where there was an overlap of acreage between a lease offered and receiving bids in 2 sales.)Table 1...
Measured crustal deformation in Imperial Valley, California
Ben Elder Lofgren
1978, Open-File Report 78-910
Precise geodetic surveys since 1972 indicate that significant vertical deformation of the land surface continues in Imperial Valley, California. Measured vertical changes as great as 3.5 cm per year indicate that two types of tectonic movement are occurring: (1) a downward regional tilt of the valley surface from the Mexican...
Water in the Dakota Formation, Hodgeman and northern Ford Counties, southwestern Kansas
David H. Lobmeyer, Edward C. Weakly
1978, Open-File Report 78-886
Results and interpretation of exploratory drilling near the Picacho Fault, south-central Arizona
Thomas L. Holzer
1978, Open-File Report 78-1016
Modern surface faulting along the Picacho fault, east of Picacho, Arizona, has been attributed to ground-water withdrawal. In September 1977, three exploratory test holes were drilled 5 km east of Picacho and across the Picacho fault to investigate subsurface conditions and the mechanism of the faulting. The holes were logged...
Aquifer tests of the Navajo sandstone near Caineville, Wayne County, Utah
J. W. Hood, T. W. Danielson
1978, Open-File Report 78-911
Potential sites for a spent unreprocessed fuel facility (SURFF), southwestern part of the Nevada Test Site
D. L. Hoover, Edwin Butt Eckel, Jane P. Ohl
1978, Open-File Report 78-269
In the absence of specific criteria, the topography, geomorphology, and geology of Jackass Flats and vicinity in the southwestern part of the Nevada Test Site are evaluated by arbitrary guidelines for a Spent Unreprocessed Fuel Facility. The guidelines include requirements for surface slopes of less than 5 percent, 61 m...
Trace elements, carbon, and sulfur in Devonian black shale cores from Perry County, Kentucky; Jackson and Lincoln Counties, West Virginia; and Cattaraugus County, New York
Joel S. Leventhal
1978, Open-File Report 78-504
Preliminary report on the clay mineralogy of the Upper Devonian Shales in the southern and middle Appalachian Basin
John W. Hosterman, Patricia J. Loferski
1978, Open-File Report 78-1084
The distribution of kaolinite in parts of the Devonian shale section is the most significant finding of this work. These shales are composed predominately of 2M illite and illitic mixed-layer clay with minor amounts of chlorite and kaolinite. Preliminary data indicate that kaolinite, the only allogenic clay mineral, is present...
Hydrologic data for urban studies in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area, 1976
B.B. Hampton, C.M. Wood
1978, Open-File Report 78-437
Hydrologic investigations of urban watersheds in Texas were begun by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1954. These studies are now in progress in Austin, Dallas, Dallas County, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio....
Summary of hydrologic data collected during 1976 in Dade County, Florida
John E. Hull
1978, Open-File Report 78-883
During 1976 rainfall was 1.58 inches below the long-term average. Ground-water levels ranged from 0.4 foot above to 0.5 foot below average. The highest and lowest ground water for the year were both 1 foot below their long-term averages. In the Hialeah-Miami Springs area, water levels in wells near the...
